Do you "keep up" on social networking? Do you know about the Pandemic Facebook is releasing this week? Have you heard about OpenSocial?
Facebook "Pandemic"
A lot of ActiveRain members are also Facebook "friends" or super friends or super-dooper BFFs. I forget what BFF means.. ? There is a change on Facebook scheduled to go off on Tuesday. Viral? More on Facebooks Ads and Potential Conflicts with Developers...on Venturebeat.com " In a project code-named Pandemic, Facebook will remove the somewhat popular "sponsored groups" that advertisers can buy on the site. Instead, it will introduce pages that advertisers can buy, and which can include interactive games or other applications of the advertisers' choosing."
Teri Lussier's favorite Facebook application "Zombies" has been spared... according to the article on VentrureBeat. Zombies are not commercial enough?
MySpace, Google etc. "OpenSocial"
MySpace joined forces with Google this week, have you heard about OpenSocial? In an effort to allow MySpace and others to be more FaceBook like in developing applications... LinkedIn is part of OpenSocial I believe too... The New York Times on Why Google Turned Into a Social Butterfly.
It is a lot to comprehend..
Joining Facebook (and LinkedIn, MySpace, etc.) I hoped to run into some non real estate professional type folks that I know on some of the social networks... so far I have only a couple of contacts that are "real people."
The NY Times article says of Google, MySpace etc joining forces in OpenSocial:
"At that point, Facebook and other social networking sites appeared to be the only companies in a position to instill fear in Google. The sites tend to be the place where many members head first when they go online, and many end up staying right there. The sites also hamper Google's ability to meet its grand charter of organizing the world's information and making it available to all; the Google search crawler is not allowed to land on most social networking islands and gather data about what island residents are saying and doing."
ActiveRain is an island that does allow Google to see what we are saying and doing....
I have a MySpace account. I feel more comfortable on Facebook than I do on MySpace. Not that I have done anything on Facebook. I am more comfortable on Twitter than I am on Facebooks so my Twitter feeds my Facebook... and my three blogs (ActiveRain and my other blogs... my real blogs...) feed my Twitter mostly using Twitterfeed. Comfortable on Twitter... I'm comfortable on Twitter... other than being paranoid about being followed...
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